Posted on 10/30/2019 3:10:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
So here we see that although Adam and Eve and their two son where supposed to be the first people, there were obviously other people who were not born in God’s paradise who could kill Cain or marry him.
Though I'm not a young earther the biblical answer for this is that Adam and Eve had 800 years or so of life. They had a LOT of kids...but just three are listed. All of these kids married each other and because they had a purer genetic line there was no problem with the genetics of it..
I've read that some believe '40' was mistranslated and should just be 'many.' "40 days & 40 nights, wandering in the desert for 40 years, Ali Baba and his 40 thieves", etc
Sixty percent of Bangladesh goes underwater each year. We get an amazing 5' of rain here (Mobile) each year. My jaw dropped when I read about places in Bangladesh that get 50' each year.
Where in the Bible does it say that Adam and Eve had 800 year of life? Where in the Bible does it say they had many kids? What the Bible DOES say is that their children produced 2 lines of descent. One is the Cain line which was in ongoing rebellion against the will of God, and the other was the Seth line that lived in obedience to God. And the Bible for sure says NOTHING about lack of incest genetic problems because of the purity of their genetics. It is so easy to say that the Bible could never be wrong in the light of more recent knowledge. It is so easy to come up with Biblical answers that are NOT in the Bible to “prove” anything you want to prove. There may be people in science with egos that stick to wrong answers, but plenty of others in science are there to point out their mistakes and generally be believed with enough evidence.
One earth change that could have eventually changed enough conditions, ocean currents for example, was the joining up of North and South America at the Panama area. Although this was more like 3 million years ago, it could have taken a long time for ocean currents and other factors to gradually build to the point where a major change in glacial periods occurred.
The following verses trace the genealogy of Seth, just one of Adam's sons:
Gen 5:3 And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image, and named him Seth.
It doesn't mention it here but we know before this there were at LEAST two other kids, Cain and Abel. And likely many more. Remember the Lord had instructed them to "go forth and multiply". Adam and Eve were likely the most fertile people ever. Created by God himself to go forth and multiply.
Gen 5:4 After he begot Seth, the days of Adam were eight hundred years; and he had sons and daughters.
So Adam lived for 800 more years AFTER Seth and MORE sons and daughters.
Gen 5:5 So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
So Adam lived 930 years. Assuming that there was a certain amount of time to mature it's going to be about 900 years of having kids.
What the Bible DOES say is that their children produced 2 lines of descent. One is the Cain line which was in ongoing rebellion against the will of God, and the other was the Seth line that lived in obedience to God.
And all those other sons and daughters that Adam and Eve were also lines.
And the Bible for sure says NOTHING about lack of incest genetic problems because of the purity of their genetics.
When God created man he said it was "very good". To me that signifies perfect genetics. Perfect DNA. Or at least what constituted very good in God's eyes. They were the best God could make for what he intended.
To NOT believe that Adam and Eve had more kids then just 3 is being willfully ignorant of scripture. Looking for non-biblical answers when a good case can be made from the bible isn't profitable either.
Courtesy ping to post 45....
Gee whiz, I have been missing this discussion. If I started it, I really did not mean for it to get to this point. I was just trying to put a damper on the stalking that tries to hinder discovery of truth and knowledge.
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